Category: Nature’s Secret

As the winter snows settle on its slopes, sometimes for as long as six months, the local residents (who make a small and select club) busy themselves with the task of survival: the small, plump, rabbit-like pika, the hoary marmot, the shy and only rarely glimpsed mountain goat and the grizzly bear, for whom the marmot and pika would make a welcome meal. animals survive

An egg breaks open to reveal the way to a bright new world. Fluffy, feathery, scaly and horny creatures of all kinds burst into life from eggs in the warm sand, swaying tree tops or even deep in the sea. Of these the oldest is the turtle. Its ancestors crawled among the giant animals which roamed the Earth in prehistoric times. – Animals lay millions of eggs

There is a thin fragile layer lying on a small part of the surface of the Earth. Few people think much of it or understand it. Yet this layer — the soil — is perhaps the greatest gift of Nature to Man. It is a complex living thing without which there is nothing but desert. – What is Soil.

It is generally believed that Nature is ruthless. If any wild creature is sick or injured it is always left to die or is actually killed by its companions rather than become a liability to them. This is not strictly true. Many creatures act as their own doctors in an attempt to cure themselves. Nature’s Healers